Ants in a computer...I remember that... One time at work, an entire classroom's computers were infested with ants (the teacher left the room extremely messy, with bits of food all over). They almost did some damage...lol...
Well, the thing that keeps me in contact with windows at least part of the time is the fact that they run NT 4 on all of the computers at school, and the administators of the network avoid open source and unix like the plague. They don't even know (most of them) what linux is. I have to show them what it is! As far as home goes, there are five people in my house...my parents, my sisters, and myself. At home, the reasoning behind having the windows boxen that i have on my network is because everybody is addicted to windows, as they are afraid of change. For my sisters (and partly myself, although not much anymore since school has started up), it's games. Very few of the games they play are released for linux. For my dad the Electrical Engineer, it's a simple matter of the way he was introduced to the computing world... Windows is for home and business (management), and Unix/Linux is for development and Design stuff. I have been lucky enough to have been given a second hand SparcStation 5, and i use Solaris 7 with that almost exclusively. There is the issue of getting IM running, and my palm to sync to it...and MP3's to play. I know it's possible, but i don't have time to tinker, so i have a small crap-top running Win98 next to the workstation. It works exclusively for Palm Pilot Sync, MP3 playing, and AOLIM (one at a time...multi-tasking isn't possible for that combination of old hardware and bloated software). Even then, it just barely works...it's old.
I use unix almost exclusively, with just a bit of windows mixed in (although i don't like it). Hopefully, when i get my box for college, i will be able to either get a Mac w/ OS X, or throw linux on it. A dual boot for the latter option is not out of the question since the unfortunate truth is that the world runs on Windows....
My god...this is really pathetic... What are they going to go after next...public libraries (i can imagine..."yes...you need a site license to keep that book in the library and lend it out...")? Free E-book libraries? ARE THEY GOING TO TRY AND FIND A WAY TO AUDIT OUR BRAINS!?!?!?!?!
If a group does research, their results belong to them, and the information that they find will be their property, regardless of what other group has "similar results"...right? This is an outrage....knowledge should be accessable to the general public...especially if the group that finds it is offering it. This is an outrage.
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On a related note, when I was making a withdrawal at my local bank, the ATM proudly sported the Diebold logo. It's time to get a new bank...
Nah. It's just Florida. Their electoral process is eternally cursed.
Ants in a computer...I remember that... One time at work, an entire classroom's computers were infested with ants (the teacher left the room extremely messy, with bits of food all over). They almost did some damage...lol...
Well, the thing that keeps me in contact with windows at least part of the time is the fact that they run NT 4 on all of the computers at school, and the administators of the network avoid open source and unix like the plague. They don't even know (most of them) what linux is. I have to show them what it is! As far as home goes, there are five people in my house...my parents, my sisters, and myself. At home, the reasoning behind having the windows boxen that i have on my network is because everybody is addicted to windows, as they are afraid of change. For my sisters (and partly myself, although not much anymore since school has started up), it's games. Very few of the games they play are released for linux. For my dad the Electrical Engineer, it's a simple matter of the way he was introduced to the computing world... Windows is for home and business (management), and Unix/Linux is for development and Design stuff. I have been lucky enough to have been given a second hand SparcStation 5, and i use Solaris 7 with that almost exclusively. There is the issue of getting IM running, and my palm to sync to it...and MP3's to play. I know it's possible, but i don't have time to tinker, so i have a small crap-top running Win98 next to the workstation. It works exclusively for Palm Pilot Sync, MP3 playing, and AOLIM (one at a time...multi-tasking isn't possible for that combination of old hardware and bloated software). Even then, it just barely works...it's old.
I use unix almost exclusively, with just a bit of windows mixed in (although i don't like it). Hopefully, when i get my box for college, i will be able to either get a Mac w/ OS X, or throw linux on it. A dual boot for the latter option is not out of the question since the unfortunate truth is that the world runs on Windows....
Peace...
My god...this is really pathetic... What are they going to go after next...public libraries (i can imagine..."yes...you need a site license to keep that book in the library and lend it out...")? Free E-book libraries? ARE THEY GOING TO TRY AND FIND A WAY TO AUDIT OUR BRAINS!?!?!?!?!
If a group does research, their results belong to them, and the information that they find will be their property, regardless of what other group has "similar results"...right? This is an outrage....knowledge should be accessable to the general public...especially if the group that finds it is offering it. This is an outrage.
Never send a set-top-box to do a PC's work... and one serviced by Microsoft no less!?!?